•Obasanjo and Soludo Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has congratulated former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his 87th birthday. The governor said Obasanjo remained a towering figure in Nigerian and African history. This was disclosed in a press statement issued by Soludo’s Press Secretary, Christian Aburime, today. The governor ...
Nigerian Army 2 Division Headquarters, Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment, Odogbo Barracks Oojo Ibadan has today notified members of the public especially residents of Ibadan metropolis about the extension of the ongoing shooting range exercise at the cantonment. The 2 Division Nigerian Army Headquarters earlier last week through a press statement iss...
•Tolu Arokodare After failing to convert a penalty in their loss to Club Brugge in the Belgium Pro League, Genk’s Nigerian forward, Tolu Arokodare, has been subjected to online racism. The game took place at the Cegeka Arena, where fifth-placed Genk hosted third-placed Brugge, aiming to surpass them in the league standings with a victory. [&he...
•Allen Onyema Nigerian airlines lose an estimated N15 billion annually to bad behaviours of passengers, which avoidably lead to flight delays. Dr. Allen Onyema, the Chairman of Air Peace, stated this to aviation correspondents yesterday in Lagos, reports Daily Independent. Onyema lamented that poor passenger behaviours constitute the major cau...
In a historic medical feat, a team of Saudi medical professionals has accomplished the separation surgery of Nigerian conjoined twins, Hassana and Husaina, at the King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital in Riyadh. The directive for this landmark achievement came from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and...
The federal government, in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), repatriated another batch of 147 irregular Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya yesterday. Amb. Kabiru Musa, Charge d’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, disclosed this in a statement. Musa said the evacuees who departed Tripoli Int...
•Lagbaja and Adelabu Minister of Power Adebayo Adelabu has assured the Army of his readiness to dialogue with Distribution Companies (DisCos) over its electricity debt burden amounting to N42 billion. The Minister spoke when the Chief of Army Staff ( CAS) Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja visited and appealed for his intervention over the de...
The silent war between the Federal Government of Nigeria and that of Niger Republic is getting deeper as the government of the Francophone African country has singled out all flights from Nigeria for total ban from its airspace. The ban which was contained in circular issued by the Bureau Notam International De L’Quest African to […]
•Pope Francis Catholic Bishops in Nigeria have expressed disagreement with the position of Pope Francis on the blessing of same-sex couples. The Pope’s stance could be translated as endorsement of same-sex marriage by the Church, reports Daily Trust. In a speech delivered by President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev...
Current operating aircraft of Nigerian carriers have dropped to 44 from about 107 a few years ago following the debilitatÂing foreign exchange crisis, investigation has revealed. The current statistics show that 63 aircraft of the scheduled operators are either grounded in the country or are in the various maintenance organisations outside Nig...

